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Michael Jordan giving up basketball to play baseball. "The Brady Bunch" adding a cute little kid, cousin Oliver, to boost sagging ratings. Celebrities who name their babies "Banjo," "Apple," "Facebook," "Moxie Crimefighter" or "Bronx Mowgli." The Yugo. New Coke. Everybody has an opinion on the stupidest ideas anyone ever has had. Many people also would include the Taco Bell chihuhua, "AfterM*A*S*H," the Cleveland Indians' 10-Cent Beer Night, the KFC Double Down and the bone-headed decision to give a sitcom puppet, ALF, his own talk show. Two Hartford-based writers, Daniel B. Kline and Jason Tomaszewski, recently...